Whether or not you ache from actual Internet addiction, it’s simple to abatement into a amaranthine Internet media k-hole. There’s just so abundant to read! You could absorb all day, every day beat links and never even appear abutting to account all the things. It’s frustrating, can aftereffect in time biking — but abandoned to the approaching — and the ancillary furnishings are basically life-ruining. Here are some of the added accepted Internet k-holes you ability aboveboard airing into. Beware! It’s like the Hotel California, you can bang out anytime you like, but you can never leave.
The Feminist Media K-hole
There are so abounding sites for women or I guess, by absence “feminist” sites, it’s simple to abatement into a feminist media k-hole — abnormally one that starts off artlessly enough. Maybe you’re on Hellogiggles account about, I don’t know, the allowances of girls with glasses or 5 means to accomplish a ukelele out of your mom’s best blazers and afresh al of a sudden you’re affiliated to something on The Hairpin, which still seems appealing banal and appropriately quirky, but you know, in a way that’s accessible. Then, they’ve affiliated to a column at Jezebel, which leads you to seeing something in the aftereffect about a boondocks abounding of rapes and afresh you’re account all about how Republicans wish to stick their easily in our vaginas and basis about in our uteri like Gold Rush-era ol’ prospectors and afresh you’re affronted and afraid and up in accoutrements and beat aback and alternating amid Jez and Feministing and something crazy and agrarian the adorableness editor at xoJane said and oh my god, can you even believe her? Appealing anon you’re on added bookish feminist sites like Shakesville and afresh you’re off the balustrade on some Livejournal area someone says all heterosexual sex is “technically rape” in an assay of the Joss Whedon appearance Firefly and now you’re sad about the absolute apple forever.
Oof. There is a advantageous way to absorb feminist media (and media for women, which I don’t anticipate are necessarily the aforementioned thing! A lot of of both are absolutely admirable and candid and smart!). But some of these sites just augment off of your abhorrence and acrimony to accretion hits and money — array of like The Aphotic Ancillary in Star Wars, except with added hair accessories modeled afterwards Beyonce songs.
Tumblr Shame Spiral
TSS — Tumblr Shame Spiral (not Toxic Shock Syndrome) — is the one Internet k-hole I’m a lot of affected to. If I were Rivers Cuomo, Tumblr would be my breakable Japanese cellist. I am obsessed. But I fabricated the mistake, in the alpha if I aboriginal active up for the site, of afterward aback anybody who followed me — rather than just afterward blogs that acquaint about my interests. So now, my dashboard is a assorted splattering of sh-t I ability not necessarily affliction about.
It starts off artlessly enough. Maybe I’ll see a photo of a hot guy and admiration what appearance he’s from or anyone will column a funny adduce and I’ll be analytical about who said it. So I bang through. Once I acquisition out, I anticipate it wouldn’t aching to blazon their name into the seek aftereffect and see what abroad I can acquisition out about them.
In a flash, it’s six hours after and I apperceive the words to all of One Direction’s songs and I abhorrence Finchel and I anticipate bowties are air-conditioned and I wish Sherlock to abandoned the bejesus out of John Watson. I attending out my window at the humans accepting fun on the city-limits streets and I benevolence them.
Youtube Wonderland
Youtube, while absolutely abounding of alluringly simple cat videos, is aswell its own alternating cosmos Hollywood with altered accepted “TV shows” and altered A-list celebrities. It’s blithely artistic and a abundant abode to see funny humans be funny after the arid conventions of prime-time television. But the botheration starts because Youtube celebrities assume to all be accompany with anniversary other.
Watching just one Youtuber’s approach will never answer if they accept cameos by added absorbing vloggers. Appealing soon, you’re absence from Shane Dawson’s 5 thousand channels over to my claimed admired (and adolescent PIT abode aggregation member) Grace Helbig over to My Drunk Kitchen over to Jenna Marbles over to Kassem G over to …I guess, Ray William Johnson. Next affair you apperceive you’ve been watching videos for an absolute day and you can’t stop singing “Commenting on your comments” and talking about wolves.
You will never watch “real” TV again.
Hate Reading
Hate account is a august abnormality wherein I accumulate account something just because it makes me angry. It’s array of why I still watch Glee. If you’re a liberal, arch on over to Foxnews.com or if you’re a feminist, why not try the Men’s Rights area of Reddit?
Reading something because you abhorrence it can absolutely get your claret pumping and your apperception going. It can advice you codify your opinions about why you absolutely feel the adverse way. That getting said, it’s simple to get absent in a hate-reading k-hole because the apple is a big abode and there is consistently traveling to be a amaranthine accumulation of humans who disagree with your worldview. Don’t let it get you too formed up.
Sports & Celebrity Gossip
I consistently acquisition it funny if sports admirers say they “hate celebrity gossip” because about athletes are their own versions of the Kardashians. “It’s like, I don’t affliction about which Absolute Housewife got a nosejob or whether Kristen Stewart is dating Robert Pattinson. These humans are richer than I am and accept annihilation to do with my absolute activity — wait, oh my god, Albert Pujols got traded where?!”
Don’t pretend you’re aloft absorbing over minutia, sports fans. You’ve got your own “celebrities” and “gossip” even if none of it appears on Oh No They Didn’t or Perez Hilton. Internet assay of sports and athletes and sports media is just as abysmal a k-hole. You can abatement in faster than Usain Bolt can run 200 meters. For instance, alpha at ESPN.com afresh chase a hotlink over to a adventure about the NBA playoffs breaking down that adventure on Deadspin with some more-or-less advertisement application a adduce by Paul Pierce’s cousin’s girlfriend’s dog groomer and afresh chase it up by account Chuck Klosterman or Malcolm Gladwell’s assessment on which affiliate of the Sex Pistols represents which of the final four teams at Grantland.
Wikipedia
Wikipedia ability accept been congenital accurately to could cause Internet k-holes. There’s so abundant centralized bond it’s like an bacchanal of array of authentic (?) information. It starts off with you blockage a actuality for a cardboard or commodity you’re alive on. Maybe you wish to apperceive who starred as the earlier sister on Family Ties or you can’t bethink if the Denver Airport installed that alarming demon horse carve out front. Next affair you apperceive you’ve clicked through to a account of all bi-polar celebrities or campaign from the 1600s who wore hats. You alpha out account a abridgment of one adventure of Fresh Prince and afresh you’re account about the accomplished alternation and afresh about what a Foley artisan does and afresh how Natalie Wood drowned and afresh the actual appellation for a blazon of synesthesia area you see colors as numbers and afresh the adventure abaft Eddie Murphy’s “Party All The Time” and afresh about the accent of squirrels in Norse mythology.
You’ll apperceive so abundant abortive sh-t you’ll either end up on Jeopardy or never be able to accept a accustomed animal amusing alternation anytime again.
Gross Stuff
The Internet is abounding of gross things for you to attending at and be abashed by. Wish dissection photos of celebrities? Or pictures of humans with debilitating derma diseases? Or awful .gifs area a monster ancestor out of the appropriate duke bend and causes you to scream so loud your roommate’s cat basically throws itself out the window? There’s no end.
Start at 4chan until you hit some adolescent porn and afresh hop over to SomethingAwful and CreepyPasta. Admiration if maybe a serial-killing antic is in fact ambuscade abaft your battery curtain. Be anxious that the ant chaw on your leg will cool to the admeasurement of a soccer ball. Worry that you’ll die in a aberration blow wherein anniversary of your limbs is pulled from your physique boring by the easily of a ample alarm tower’s face. Anticipate about larvae boob.
Don’t beddy-bye for weeks.
Conspiracy Theories And Serial Killers
Similarly, these two are appropriate kinds of k-holes that appear if you’re in a absolute aphotic clear of a place. Are you home abandoned on a Friday night, activity down and antisocial the world? Try account about how 9/11 was an central job or how we never landed on the moon or how Courtney Love asleep Kurt Cobain. Decide to accomplish your own tinfoil hat. Put aqueduct band over your computer’s webcam because the government is watching. Get absolute into it.
Or bundle up with some John Wayne Gacy, Aileen Wuornos and Ed Gein. Did you apperceive they never bent the Zodiac killer? Did you apperceive Richard Ramirez ate a asleep abundant woman’s fetus? Are you tempted to address a letter to Charles Manson?
Think twice. Morning will come, little ghoul. You’re gonna affliction this knowledge.
Porn and NC-17 Fanfiction
Well. Duh.
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